MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model

About MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model

MultiMatte is a promptable image background removal model. Tell it what you want to keep, and MultiMatte will remove the rest.

In the maker’s words

Hey HN, I'm Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data. Today we're releasing MultiMatte, a background removal model you can aim with words. Name an object in your image. MultiMatte keeps just that thing, and removes everything else. Try it out on your images: https://usefeyn.com/multimatte/ . Demo video: https://youtu.be/XZ5BJWAkOjs MultiMatte is open source. Build with it using our NoBg library https://github.com/feyninc/nobg . Model card here: https://hf.co/feyninc/multimatte MultiMatte is the second iteration of our background removal models. The first was FeyNoBg, which we released here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072462 . The big upgrade is promptability. Most models keep all foreground elements when cutting the background. MultiMatte lets you prompt the exact objects you want to keep and remove everything else. For example, If you have an …

Where people found it

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